So they come up on a jeep and they had this,” Vaughan said, fingering an ornate silver cross on a heavy chain around his neck. “So we were in the car leaving, and this guy comes running, said ‘Wait! Wait!’. “And I kept praying and thinking to myself, you know, ‘Give me a sign or something that he’s OK, or make sense out of this, or something. We then went back to the (concert site) that day, calling people and making arrangements backstage-in shock,” he said. First thinking it was a joke, but soon devastated, Jimmie went to the crash site. It wasn’t until Stevie’s manager woke Jimmie at 6 a.m. Jimmie’s flight got him back to Chicago in the early morning hours, unaware of the tragedy. Jimmie had flown in to join his brother at the show, the two riding a high as they had recently completed recording “Family Style,” their first album together-something that had been a dream for both throughout Jimmie’s 15-year stint in the Fabulous Thunderbirds and Stevie’s acclaimed ‘80s solo career. Only hours before the crash, the brothers-two of Texas blues-rock’s most talented and popular guitarists-had joined in a rollicking encore jam with Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy and Robert Cray at the conclusion of a two-day blues-rock festival at Alpine Valley in which Stevie and his band, Double Trouble, had been featured. The pilot and three other passengers-including rock booking agent Bobby Brooks-also were killed. 27 when Stevie Ray Vaughan, 35, died on a foggy hillside near Alpine Valley, Wis. “We do have a choice, but, uh, sometimes I don’t think we’re really in control.
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